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In most cases, no. Sitting and watching most people will feel like the individual is a perv. Don’t see why you would just sit and hang out at a nudist area and not be unclothed. However, if you were hanging out with people who were nudists and chatting with them also, less of a problem, but still many people may not find it kindly for someone to do that.

If you did this, you would be missing out on a TERRIFIC experience. Why would you want to go to a nude beach just to watch? It’s not as enjoyable as people might think it is. You would stand out as much as a naked person would in a non-nude setting, which would then cause the nudists to take a dim view of you.

At a nudist club; I think that the answer to your question would be “no”. However, on public lands designated as “clothing optional” there will often be textiles who will share the beach space with the nudists. These people have not come as spectators and although they remain clothed, are comfortable using the beach with the nudists. I suspect that many of these are actually nudists in transition and I try to welcome them. I would again, however, emphasize that these people, ‘tho clothed, have come to use the beach and not to just “sit and watch”.

I agree with most on this, at C/O beach most users are nude with very few non nude. No one minds them just being in their suits sunning but if they tend to focus eyesight on the nude people then it gets creepy. My very first trip to a C/O beach I was clothed for maybe 15 minutes before I felt everyone looking at me for being clothed once I got nude they stopped looking.